In order to find out, we need to go back in time. Like all Slavic languages, Polish is descended from an unattested common Proto-Slavic language. The language closest to Proto-Slavic is Old Church ...

The Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ) publishes research studies in all areas of Slavic languages, literatures, and cultures. Papers on non-Slavic East European subjects of interest to ...

The most famous example of this is probably Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed language that is the common ancestor of the (deep breath) Albanian, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic (which ...

Based on 2001 census. Wikipedia, CC BY The formation of any language is a long and uneven process that lasts for centuries. One of the theories of the origin of the east Slavic languages, including ...

Abstract The existence of a singulative, i.e. a marked secondary singular inflection, is cross-linguistically relatively widespread and a number of linguistic strategies are commonly employed to ...

Three different reflexes of Proto-Slavic *g and the reflex of *di̯ changed to fricatives in early Slavic. A hitherto unnoticed sequential constraint in Common Slavic, along with the geographical ...

Danielle C. Kijewski ’11, a concentrator in Slavic Languages and Literatures, hopes to use her language background in a career in the State Department.

One of the theories of the origin of the east Slavic languages, including Ukrainian, is that after the end of the proto-Slavic era, there was a common east Slavic period which lasted for more than ...